When my wife and I really started to get serious about sustainable living in an urban environment, I wasn’t sure where it would take us. I didn’t have a clue really what it meant to live a sustainable life while living a Christian life and being the best God wants me to be. First I would like to define what I mean by sustainable living.
Sustainable living is a series of lifestyle decisions that attempts to alter our day to day activities to be stewards of God's gifts – both natural resources and our own individual resources. We attempt to reduce our carbon footprint, energy consumption and simplifying our food choices to be as local as possible. We aim to conduct our lives in manners that are consistent with our religious convictions and sustainability, in balance and respectful of humanity's symbiotic relationship with the Earth's natural ecology and cycles without assigning deity status along the way. We attempt to reduce our financial obligations to enable us freedom from borrowed money, becoming financially sustainable as well.
Sustainable living is not a political statement, nor do we blindly make decisions that benefit the environment while disregarding human needs. As Christians we are to be good stewards of God’s creation, not exploit or overindulge in what God provides- animals or vegetation. With that said, we strive to utilize 100% of what we harvest in one way or another. America holds a consumer mentality and as a result a thoughtless wasteful environment. We are working to counter that mentality.
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